Posted 3 years ago on Jan. 16, 2014, 1:31 p.m. EST by Peake
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"Political Organization: Occupy Democrats, a merger of the goals and interests of Occupy with those of President Obama's "new" Democratic Party, is a new and growing grassroots political organization/news website: www.occupydemocrats.com"

They're on Facebook and Twitter and have already blocked me on Twitter, and responded to my emails with "Yeah whatever lol" "Umm no thanks." "Blah blah good riddance". They claimed on Twitter:

@Mike_Peake We're still waiting for you to realize you're wasting your breath. We have differing opinions and goals. Occupy is not uniform.

Do I have to explain the depth of fail? Occupying for Obama while ignoring his secretly fast-tracking the TPP, allowing/ordering 7,000+ arrests of actual Occupy members via riot police, massive hand-outs to Goldman Sachs and Wall Street, protecting Wall Street from prosecution...being a Democrat is suddenly "non-partisan"? Obama Denial Syndrome is in full effect.

If you wish to alert them to the NYC GA's Declarations of non-partisanship, of anti-corporatism, of supporting NO political party, of being for the people of the country and against the money bastards, please feel free. As often as you wish, for as long as you wish.

Remember who was thrown to the curb in 2008, it was Hillary Clinton. Why? Because she is a moderate liberal who regularly gets pummeled by both the neo-con media and the progressive media. It's a shame the Occupy Movement has pigeonholed her as part of the establishment.

You don't understand. This is not Occupiers Occupying the democratic party to bring it to sanity; this is Pro-Obama "tea party" style nonsense, a co-option of Occupy without any of its actual principles. There is no possible way to be pro-Obama and with Occupy, unless you truly stand utterly ignorant of Obama's actions for Wall Street and corporations and the ultra-rich such as his sugar momma Penny Pritzker.

"Political Organization
Occupy Democrats, a merger of the goals and interests of Occupy with those of President Obama's "new" Democratic Party, is a new and growing grassroots political organization/news website: www.occupydemocrats.com"

I approve of people who do not willfully ignore Obama's corporate crimes against the people of this country. Those who do willfully ignore Obama's corporate crimes against the people of this country, are part of the problem as well. Do not change the subject from Obama's crimes with straw man arguments. (Just because I WILL call Obama's crimes to attention does not mean I do not also condemn republicans, and in refusing to support democrats who ignore Obama's crimes and Wall Street enabling against republican crimes, does not make me for republicans either.)

A straw man, also known in the UK as an Aunt Sally,[1][2] is a common type of argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position.[3] To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having denied a proposition by replacing it with a superficially similar yet inequivalent proposition (the "straw man"), and to deny it, without ever having actually denied the original position.[3][4] This technique has been used throughout history in polemical debate, particularly in arguments about highly charged, emotional issues. In those cases the false victory is often loudly or conspicuously celebrated.

I agree with you, Mike. The entire concept of merging the "goals and interests of Occupy with those of President Obama's "new" Democratic Party" is ludicrous. Probably an astroturf organization set up by the DNC to capitalize on the Occupy brand and get back some of their lost members.

The problem with 'Trashy' is his duplicity and deep anti-forum activities ever since he was ousted or rather prevented from infiltrating the forum from back in the days in the park. He never quite got over being rumbled as a probable agent-provocateur and having his few lines of code rejected by jart.

Lest we, you and he (lolol) forget - 'T' has defaced posts ; written and unleashed bots ; usurped existing posters' monikers (eg TIOUISE) ; signed off as other posters {eg.Odin} ; hounded posters straight off the forum [Proteus] ; embedded links to the FBI homepage is faux-posts ; engaged in driving mods up the wall - thereby giving rise to the serious-mod-anxieties ; tried to usurp this forum ; tried to co-opt others posters ; used wedge-issues like Black-Bloc / Anarchy / Conspiracy Theory ; tried to implant useless memes like 'Bridge To The Ground' - <whereas bridge to the base of his coccyx from the point of my boot would have been better> ; tried to bully posters ; tried to neuter this forum, etc. Etc. ETC.

He revels in bringing the worst out in twitchy mods and other posters and so being coincidentally right like a broken clock counts for squat. Dem co-option was NEVER a mystery or improbability here on this forum and those posters with an eYe on The 99% never let that get in the way of that which needs to be done. 'Peake' here was / is doing just fine. So stay the fk out of it 'TrashyTroll', you : 'Concern Troll' ~ http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Concern_troll & if it's real 99% issues that you're looking for, try :

"Average annual corporate profit growth under Obama is the highest since 1900, whereas profit growth declined during both Bush presidencies. As a share of the economy, corporate profits have never been higher.
Unfortunately, this profit deluge has not been shared by workers, whose wages as a percentage of the economy have fallen to all-time lows. Workers also got dinged by the recent increase in the payroll tax, which was large enough to wipe out a minimum wage increase in some states."

"Throughout the months of November and December, a steady stream of corporate CEOs flowed in and out of the White House to discuss the impending fiscal cliff. Many of them, such as Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs, would then publicly come out and talk about how modest increases of tax rates on the wealthy were reasonable in order to deal with the deficit problem. What wasn’t mentioned is what these leaders wanted, which is what’s known as “tax extenders”, or roughly $205B of tax breaks for corporations. With such a banal name, and boring and difficult to read line items in the bill, few political operatives have bothered to pay attention to this part of the bill. But it is critical to understanding what is going on.

5) Subsidies for Goldman Sachs Headquarters – Sec. 328 extends 'tax exempt financing for York Liberty Zone,' which was a program to provide post-9/11 recovery funds. Rather than going to small businesses affected, however, this was, according to Bloomberg, 'little more than a subsidy for fancy Manhattan apartments and office towers for Goldman Sachs and Bank of America Corp.' Michael Bloomberg himself actually thought the program was excessive, so that’s saying something. According to David Cay Johnston’s The Fine Print, Goldman got $1.6 billion in tax free financing for its new massive headquarters through Liberty Bonds."

Perhaps you should post in a thread specific to your state-level interests so people who wish to read about an organization calling itself "Occupy" yet support Obama's pro-corporate and pro-Wall Street policies can do so? That's what this post is about, a co-opting by people utterly unclear on the subject.

Yes, it is imperative to change the states. You however have taken this post far off-topic from the co-option of the term Occupy by pro-Wall Street entities. Why?